watercolor and ink on paper, 36 x 24 inches

COPY JAM! 2: Text Edition

This Summer, PRINTERESTING wants to meet our readers in the Windy City! On Friday July 30, we will host an encore performance of our Copy Jam! at the Printers’ Ball at Luddington Building in beautiful, downtown Chicago, IL. The Ball is co-sponsored by Poetry magazine as well as the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College and the Student Affairs Offices at Columbia College. Because the Printers’ Ball has its roots in the literary world, we asked all participating artists to give us work that incorporates text in some way.

“COPY JAM!” will be an interactive print event. During the party, fifty works by fifty artists will be displayed in a grid on the wall. Upon arrival, each guest will be handed a complimentary ticket that can be exchanged for one black & white photocopy of any work the guest chooses. There will be no sales; one ticket equals one copy. Copies will be made LIVE in the gallery for one night only from 6-9PM!

Featured Artists:

Abra Ancliffe • Jesse Albrecht • Baltimore Print Studios • Christian Bok Glen Baldridge • Diana Behl • Kate Bingaman-Burt • Ingrid Burrington Allison Cole • Bill Donovan • Christa Donner • Johanna Drucker Friends Make Prints (Nic Annette Miller & Emily Bunnell) Tate Foley • FOUND Magazine • Kenneth Goldsmith Dusty Herbig • Adriane Herman • Dustin Amery Hostetler Holly Holly Hobby Hobby (Leah Mackin & Anni Altshuler) Rod Hunting • Dan Grzeca • JUDGE • Chad Kouri Emily Larned • Jimmy Luu • Sean Kuhnke • Robin McDowell Bill McRight • Leslie Mutchler • Matt Neff • Jena Osman Adam Pendleton • Mark Price • Justin Quinn • Favianna Rodriguez Erik Ruin & Cindy Milstein • Julia Schwadron • Jennifer Schmidt Scott Sherk • Esther K. Smith • Sonnenzimmer • Ryan Standfest Wendy Collin Sorin • Molly Springfield • SuperKonductor Temporary Services • Brad Vetter • Cardon Copy/Cardon Webb Brian Wiggins • Will Work for Good (Kevin O’ Neill & Karisa Senavitis)

Additional information on Printeresting’s Copy Jam! is available HERE and more information regarding The Printers’ Ball is available HERE.

Palling Around with Socialists: a group exhibition June 5th – 26th, 2010 Opening reception: Saturday, June 5th, 7:00 – 10:00 pm

Cincinnati, OH—Since its inception, U·turn Art Space has sought to facilitate discourse towards imagining questions about the methods and practices of a functional society. In Palling Around with Socialists, a number of artists and the gallery collective have come together to curate an exhibition that questions the nature of an individual as an autonomous being or as a component to an equitable community. Our nation presently finds itself in a culture war, where language is traversing outside the bounds of denoted definitions: words like socialist, fascism, tsar and terror are volleyed around public debates. While different parties and groups fear a loss of personal freedoms, we may be at greater risk of misarticulating the perceived conflicts with which we are faced. Concerns about the nature of private property, authorship and current intersections between economics, ethics and philosophy will be raised through the work of Shinsuke Aso, Gabriel Boyce and Preston Link, Alton Falcone, David Horvitz, Justin Kemp, Steve Kemple, Julia Schwadron and Steve Lambert. The presented works continue to exercise aesthetic sensitivity, demonstrating a belief in form contributing to the advancement of concepts. Critically playful and directly engaging our community with optimistic, activist strategies, U·turn and these artists seek to contribute to a larger dialogue with art that presents unexpected viewpoints and makes note of abstractions that may expand upon or resituate current discussions about social responsibility, power and control.

“The question of social change and art becomes then a problem of discovering the manner in which a new content modifies the conventional manner of expression: the manner in which purely aesthetic changes, occasioned by social changes, modify content to accord with newer forms. But insofar as the formal change may be socially conditioned, we must distinguish between those social changes that operate on the artist directly and those that operate indirectly.” –Meyer Schapiro in his essay “Art and Social Change”

Tomorrow night, Wednesday June 23rd, 7-10pm

93 2nd Ave (between 5th & 6th Sts, 2nd Ave stop on the F), NYC, NY.

Wed-Sat 3-8pm, 212.777.7988

June 23rd – July 3rd, 2010

Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 23rd, 7 to 10pm

click here to see the show, or click here for the press release

Participating Artists: Katelyn Alain, Melissa Anderson, Carrie-Ann Bracco, Charis Carmichael Braun, Dina Brodsky, Maya Brodsky, Daniel Brusky, Lyndsea Cochrane, Tim Daly, Bonnie DeWitt, Michelle Doll, Peter Drake, Samuel Evensen, Debra Goertz, Kathy Goodell, Jane Hamill, Jim Harris, Paul Hazelton, Catherine Howe, Caitlin Hurd, John Jacobsmeyer, Alan Bur Johnson, Christian Johnson, Michael Kagan, Alex Kanevsky, Karl Koett, Bryan Leboeuf, Lisa Lebofsky, Amy Mahnick, Alyssa Monks, Cory Morgenstein, Tun Myaing, John Nickle, Linnea Paskow, Rafael Perez, Jennifer Presant, Jean Pierre Roy, Kristen Schiele, Charlotte Schulz, Julia Schwadron, Viviane Silvera, Damian Stamer, Melanie Vote, Mitra Walter, and Eric White

oil on board, 18 x 24in

gouache on board, 12 x 12in

gouache on board, 8 x 11in

oil on board, 9 3/4 x 9 3/4in

oil on canvas, 11 x 11in

Split Tree, oil and graphite on board, 9 3/4 x 9 3/4in